Word: lorain
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Paradise,published by Alfred O. Knopf, is Morrison's first novel since she won the Nobel Prize in 1993, and her seventh in a writing career that has included novels such asBeloved, Sula,andSong of Solomon.Morrison, a native of Lorain, Ohio, is currently a professor at Princeton, but has strong personal friendships with Gates and West...
Looking back over her 66 years, Morrison says, "Being able to laugh got me through," and she does so far more often in private conversations than her dignified and rather somber public image would suggest. She jokes about her childhood in Lorain, Ohio. "I was the one with the anonymous birth order. There was my older sister, firstborn; me, void; my younger brother, first son; and another son, the family baby. Feeling left out, and trying to attract attention, I became the noisiest of them...
BORN: Oct. 8, 1946, Cleveland EDUCATION: Case Western Reserve U, B.A., M.A, 1973 FAMILY: One child RELIGION: Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Communications POLITICAL CAREER: Candidate for U.S. House, 1972, 1974; Mayor of Cleveland 1977-79; Ohio Senate, 1994- ADDRESS: Westown Square, 10674 Lorain, Cleveland...
...parents were onetime Alabama sharecroppers who moved north to Lorain, Ohio, a small steel-mill town just west of Cleveland, in search of a better life. The second of four children, Chloe Anthony Wofford was born in 1931, in the teeth of the Great Depression. Her father took whatever jobs he could find and nurtured, as his daughter once recalled, an angry disbelief in "every word and every gesture of every white man on earth." He apparently had reason. As the daughter grew older, she heard family tales about an incident that occurred when she was only...
...publishing and academe. At the same time, while working to improve other people's manuscripts, she had territories of her own in mind. Where in contemporary American literature were the black girls and women she had known and been? Where were the fictional counterparts of her relatives back in Lorain, portrayed in all their loving, feuding, straitened complexity...